Leaving aside the question of whether Bergdahl may have been a deserter, a one-for-one prisoner swap is not a big deal. Two for one, where the captive to be returned is of higher-than-usual value or stature, isn't out of the question. Three or more for one is unforgivably stupid.

I have no explanation for why Obama freed five top Taliban killers in order to free an Anti-American traitor other than this: He is trying to enrage and depress the American people and to make them so disgusted with their government and with their society that they give up trying to save them.

I have no explanation for why Obama produced legislation restricting the emission of CO2 at coal plants at immense cost to the American people and for no significant reduction in atmospheric CO2 other than this: He is trying to enrage and depress the American people and to make them so disgusted with their government and with their society that they give up trying to save them.

That was this week's news. Almost every week in the last six years has been like this. It's time to admit that Obama hates this country and is trying to demoralize its people because he detests them. He has no further goals. His only goal is to retire to opulence having devastated this country.

Obama ignores the Gitmo closing issue for 2 years, then mentions it at West Point, the day before he lops off the 5 biggest reasons for its existence. Coincidence?

Some have speculated that he wants to empty Gitmo, but figured Bergdahl would provide him with political cover. He assumed it was like the good old days, where the left would jump in to the fray and fight for Obama so that Bergdahl's narrative would not get much attention and tie would go to the runner, which is usually Obama.

Not so easy lately. The weight of impending doom in the midterms, the still floundering ACA, compounded by the VA scandal, a newly revived Benghazi, Hillary struggling to bob and weave, Russians kicking us around, to which Obama responds "I am not a wuss", the boneheaded West Point speech, and now this? How quick are Dems to jump in to the fray, when they can't get a breather and aren't sure from which direction the slings and arrows will come next. Obama water carrying fatigue.

Obama wanted to empty Gitmo and he also has worried about the imagery of leaving a soldier behind in Afghanistan as we walk away from war. Hostages dogged Carter. They can be used to manipulate wobbly democrat Presidents forever, they even got Reagan in trouble... the Islamic world know this oh too well.

Obama hoped to kill two birds with one stone AND get the focus off the VA. Expect him to now say, if we already traded the top 5 worst guys, then how bad can the other bunch of guys be. Let's send em all to Qatar and have them promise to stay under house arrest, because we have you under surveillance.

Why do I think Obama has more surveillance gear aimed at Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz, than he will ever have pointed at these 5 mass murderers.

The gutless GOP will exact NO penalty for this situation. The GOP RINOs will talk about this and that. They will TALK about 'outrageous" this and that, blah, blah, blah. They will DO nothing. Like the gutless voters that elect RINOs, the whole point of the exercise is to get brownie points for FEELING a certain way about a certain issue. Stop deliberately confusing what a politician SAYS for action.

What can we do to get people in favor of the Administration?I know! It looks like we might be able to engineer a swap of 1 POW for 5 Taliban. ALL Americans love to see a POW returned.What about the consultation with DOD, Congress, DOJ? Heck with that, we have to strike while the iron is hot!...I thought everyone would be ecstatic that we got a POW back? So what if he might have been a deserter, cost other soldiers their lives when they went searching for him, may renounce his US citizenship, and those 5 we traded could be truly dangerous... we got a POW back! What does everyone want???

Tonight, both NBC and CBS evening news were very critical of the Bergdahl trade. Maybe the Press is starting to lose their fear of Obama's Angry Bird Stare, and they can start laughing at him like the rest of us. Or maybe it's just a lover's tiff.

Obama's narcissism is catching up with him. He is averse to being in the company of people smarter than he is, and so his entire inner circle is composed of boot-licking sycophants. The press might as well be running the country.

Surely he had been warned repeatedly over the last couple of years by Congress, Defense, and the Intelligence community that Bergdahl's circumstances were problematic and the Taliban Five were the worst of the worst. But Obama's arrogance put faith in his own counsel as if he believes his own media coverage.

The kicker was likely the need to get the VA scandal off the Sunday talk shows last weekend. For Obama, his immediate political needs trump any other consideration.

Bergdahl is a classic red herring. Someone among the five released is part of a bigger hidden deal that required Bergdahl as a cover. The decision to release the five also beclouds what is really going on here. Embedded in the five is one or more that are the real substance of the “deal”. While Bergdahl is the headline, one or maybe more of the five, not all, is the deal, hidden in plain sight. What is the real quid pro quo?

To paraphrase Warren Buffet, politics/ can remain irrational a lot longer than we can remain free. NOTHING in the last 60 years has convinced more than a handful of 'liberal' people that Leftism is bankrupt and deadly. This event sure won't do anything but occupy so-called news for a few days and be replaced by the next outrage.

Well, if yet another major blunder/deliberate illegal and treasonous act has "blown up on the White House," may I ask, so what? Will Obama or his commissars reign themselves in? Will the media do their job? Will a single Regressive learn anything? At all? So I ask again, so what?

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